April 2008 Highlights

“April is the cruellest month, breeding
Lilacs out of the dead land, mixing
Memory and desire, stirring
Dull roots with spring rain.”
T.S. Eliot, in The Waste Land (1922)

Novels
1. The Hakawati (Alfred A. Knopf, 2008) / Rabih Alameddine
2. Peace (Alfred A. Knopf, 2008) / Richard Bausch
3. The Orientalist and the Ghost (Doubleday, 2008) / Susan Barker
4. Remember Me (Sceptre, 2008) / Melvyn Bragg
5. Morality Tale (Counterpoint, 2008) / Sylvia Brownrigg
6. Amenable Women (Faber & Faber, 2008) / Mavis Cheek
7. So Brave, Young, and Handsome (Atlantic Monthly Press, 2008) / Leif Enger
8. God of Speed (Allen & Unwin, 2008) / Luke Davies
9. The Sealed Letter (HarperCollins Canada, 2008) / Emma Donoghue
10. The Plague of Doves (Harper, 2008) / Louise Erdrich
11. Scottsboro (W.W. Norton, 2008) / Ellen Feldman
12. The Spare Room (Text Publishing, 2008) / Helen Garner
13. The Story of a Marriage (Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2008) / Andrew Sean Greer
14. The Seance (Jonathan Cape, 2008) / John Harwood
15. The Northern Clemency (Fourth Estate, 2008) / Philip Hensher
16. The Third Angel (Shaye Areheart, 2008) / Alice Hoffman
17. The Sorrows of an American (Henry Holt, 2008) / Siri Hustvedt
18. Kieron Smith, Boy (Hamish Hamilton, 2008) / James Kelman
19. The Good Parents (Random House Australia, 2008) / Joan London
20. River of Heaven (Shaye Areheart, 2008)/ Lee Martin
21. Shadow Country (Modern Library, 2008) / Peter Matthiessen
22. Trauma (Alfred A. Knopf, 2008) / Patrick McGrath
23. Here at the End of the World We Learn to Dance (John Murray, 2008) (first published in 2002) / Lloyd Jones
24. The Enchantress of Florence (Jonathan Cape, 2008) / Salman Rushdie
25. Belong to Me (William Morrow, 2008) / Marisa de los Santos
26. All Souls (Houghton Mifflin, 2008) / Christine Schutt
27. The Butt (Bloomsbury, 2008) / Will Self
28. The God of War (Simon & Schuster, 2008) / Marisa Silver
29. Bone China (Harper Press, 2008) / Roma Tearne

First Novels
1. The Outlander (Ecco, 2008) / Gil Adamson
2. The White Tiger (Atlantic, 2008) / Aravind Adiga
3. The Painter of Shanghai (Penguin, 2008) / Jennifer Cody Epstein
4. The Night of the Mi’raj (Little, Brown, 2008) / Zoë Ferraris
5. Attachments (Alfred A. Knopf, 2008) / Isabel Fonseca
6. Love Marriage (Random House/Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2008) / V.V. Ganeshananthan
7. The End of East (Thomas Dunne Books, 2008) / Jen Sookfong Lee
8. The Toss of a Lemon (Random House Canada, 2008) / Padma Viswanathan

Stories
1. The Day I Ate Whatever I Wanted and Other Small Acts of Liberation (Random House, 2008) / Elizabeth Berg
2. Unaccustomed Earth (Alfred A. Knopf, 2008) / Jhumpa Lahiri
3. Wild Nights!: Stories About the Last Days of Poe, Dickinson, Twain, James, and Hemingway (Ecco, April 2008) / Joyce Carol Oates
4. Storm Over Belfast (New Island Books, 2008) / Mary O’Donnell
5. The Complete Short Stories (with an introduction by Liz Lochhead) (Polygon, 2008) / Agnes Owens
6. Dictation: A Quartet (Houghton Mifflin, 2008) / Cynthia Ozick

Poetry
1. Watching the Spring Festival (Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2008) / Frank Bidart
2. For All We Know (Wake Forest University Press, 2008) / Ciaran Carson
3. Language for a New Century: Contemporary Poetry from the Middle East, Asia, and Beyond (W.W. Norton, 2008) / Tina Chang, Nathalie Handal and Ravi Shankar (eds.)
4. The Broken Word (Jonathan Cape, 2008) / Adam Foulds
5. Sea Change (Ecco, 2008) / Jorie Graham
6. Half of the World in Light: New and Selected Poems (University of Arizona Press, 2008) / Juan Felipe Herrera

7. Invasions (Ivan R. Dee, 2008) / Adam Kirsch
8. Sleeping It Off in Rapid City: Poems New and Selected (Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2008) / August Kleinzahler
9. The Landscapist: Selected Poems (trans. from the French by John Ashbery) (The Sheep Meadow Press, 2008) / Pierre Martory

10. The Bestiary (Polygon, 2008) / Sam Meekings
11. Selected Poems (Faber & Faber, 2008) / Bernard O’Donoghue
12. That Little Something (Harcourt, 2008) / Charles Simic

Nonfiction
1. The Sum of Our Days: A Memoir (trans. from the Spanish by Margaret Sayers Peden) (Fourth Estate/HarperCollins, 2008) / Isabel Allende
2. A Summer of Hummingbirds: Love, Art, and Scandal in the Intersecting Worlds of Emily Dickinson, Mark Twain, Harriet Beecher Stowe, and Martin Johnson Heade (Penguin Press, 2008) / Christopher Benfey
3. The Dream: A Memoir (Ballantine Books, 2008) / Harry Bernstein
4. A Wolf at the Table (St. Martin’s Press, 2008) / Augusten Burroughs
5. Maps and Legends: Reading and Writing Along the Borderlands (McSweeney’s Books, 2008) / Michael Chabon
6. Family Bible (University of Iowa Press, 2008) / Melissa J. Delbridge
7. Growing Up in England: The Experience of Childhood 1600-1914 (Yale University Press, 2008) / Anthony Fletcher
8. The Secret Life of Words: How English Became English (John Murray, 2008) / Henry Hitchings
9. Cultural Amnesia: Notes in the Margin of My Time (Picador, 2008) / Clive James
10. The Library at Night (Yale University Press, 2008) / Alberto Manguel
11. A Country in the Moon: Travels in Search of the Heart of Poland (Granta, 2008) / Michael Moran
12. What Moves at the Margin: Selected Nonfiction (ed. Carolyn C. Dennard) (University Press of Mississippi, 2008) / Toni Morrison
13. Cold Cream: My Early Life and Other Mistakes (Bloomsbury, 2008) / Ferdinand Mount
14. What Rhymes with Bastard? (Fourth Estate, 2008) / Linda Robertson
15. A Dangerous Liaison (Century, April 2008) / Carole Seymour-Jones
16. Havanas in Camelot: Personal Essays (Random House, 2008) / William Styron
17. The Suspicions of Mr Whicher: or The Murder at Road Hill House (Bloomsbury, 2008) / Kate Summerscale
18. Armageddon in Retrospect (Putnam Adult, 2008) / Kurt Vonnegut